Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...

We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter solstice and March's vernal equinox. That moment took place at 4:11 p.m.

Oregon is noted for having the largest dark sky sanctuary in the world as well as the best national park in the US for ...

The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...

When driving around town, some may have noticed that many of the city’s street lights have a different look to them.

You'll want to get away from the city, where light pollution can obfuscate ... applies when four or more planets line up in the night sky at once. It's not an official astronomy term so you ...

Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full moon skies. The ...